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The large brick angular building in the left foreground still stands. It can be seen on Google Street View from Water Street crossing over Fall Kill (the stream with the small boats in the center foreground).

It appears the high ground where the original picture was taken from was leveled for US Route 9 (or else was taken from the belfry of Mt. Carmel Church).

I am told that the ferry in the picture is the sidewheeler Brinckerhoff, which ended service in the 1930s on completion of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge about half-a-mile to the South. The Brinckerhoff was the last vessel to operate the ferry service between Poughkeepsie & Highland, which had started in 1793.

This is the guy who has everything to do with cleaning up the Hudson River
and making the river a genuine place of interest again. Lucky shot, as his repro
Hudson River Sloop, the ‘’Clearwater’’, was just coming about at the moment.
Pete Seegar. Genuine hero! Opening day of the ‘’Walkway Over The Hudson’’.

Due to the incredible efforts of locals, the abandoned bridge, which I honestly thought would be left to rot and eventually collapse upon the city of Poughkeepsie, has been converted into one of the major attractions in the state! Hurrah for Poughkeepsie!!!!!

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